charakter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A glyph with no agreed semantic or phonetic value, generally formed by deforming a letter of the Greek alphabet or a simple geometric symbol via one of several predefined processes, used as part of magical texts in the Hellenistic world.

Word forms

charakter charakteres

Etymology

Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr). Doublet of character.

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